Wreck of the Deutschland

Thou mastering me
God! giver of breath and bread;
World’s strand, sway of the sea;
Listen, I have not shed
The stain nor tarnish of my sins,
Yet shall be tried, draped,
Bounteously lost: ease and yield
For thee to give a space where zeal
Can breathe soft scented thorns,
As ocean faces bless this earth.

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Gerard Manley Hopkins